All my boys were part of the Leone Beach, also known as Rogers Park Beach. I never had a summer problem. Other mothers would say I am so glad when school opens again. My kids would go to the beach. I demanded that they come home for lunch, and then they would go back to the beach, and come home for dinner because I wanted to keep track of them. Sam Leone would take the kids out water skiing with his boat The Alert. Sam Leone was known as the Architect of Men because he was the coordinator of the junior lifeguard and lifeguard programs at Rogers Park Beach from 1925-1965 . If one of the young people had a problem, he would help them to believe in themselves again. Too bad we don't have another Sam Leone. I never worried about the kids getting bored. They never wanted to take a day off. They were so happy in that water. My husband and his brothers were all lifeguards and junior lifeguards. The Beach was an important place for all of the male Dooleys. The women went out shopping and had a good time while the boys were gone.

My husband and I pushed to have the beach renamed Leone Beach. I did all the publicity. My husband, Jack Dooley, was the president of the Rogers Park Parent's Association My husband was Sam's pallbearer. Sam told my husband that I want you to carry me in and out of church. When we were coming out of church on the day of Sam's funeral, my husband said we have got to get that beach renamed Sam Leone Beach in honor of Sam. I said okay I will work on it. One day I went downtown and got every columnist with a paper. I look back on it and that was the beginning of a terrific career. It took nine months. Richard Daley senior was a friend of Sam's and he came in out about the fifth month into it. I pushed to get Mayor Daley's name every week in the Lerner Newspaper. Daley would be quoted as saying "Sam was a great guy we got to rename that beach after him." It shows you if you really believe you can do most anything. It never occurred to me that I couldn't have the beach's name changed.